OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Empirical analysis of session-based recommendation algorithms	47
The relationship between user types and gamification designs	41
Activity recognition using wearable sensors for tracking the elderly	29
Interplay between upsampling and regularization for provider fairness in recommender systems	27
A flexible framework for evaluating user and item fairness in recommender systems	27
The effects of controllability and explainability in a social recommender system	25
Research directions in session-based and sequential recommendation	25
Generating post hoc review-based natural language justifications for recommender systems	23
“Knowing me, knowing you”: personalized explanations for a music recommender system	19
Toward neuroadaptive support technologies for improving digital reading: a passive BCI-based assessment of mental workload imposed by text difficulty and presentation speed during reading	18
Automatic generation and recommendation of personalized challenges for gamification	16
Exploring author gender in book rating and recommendation	16
Potential and effects of personalizing gameful fitness applications using behavior change intentions and Hexad user types	15
Personality-based approach for tailoring persuasive mental health applications	15
Development of measurement instrument for visual qualities of graphical user interface elements (VISQUAL): a test in the context of mobile game icons	14
Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being	14
Myrror: a platform for holistic user modeling	13
Session-aware news recommendations using random walks on time-evolving heterogeneous information networks	13
EvoRecSys: Evolutionary framework for health and well-being recommender systems	13
Personalized home-care support for the elderly: a field experience with a social robot at home	13
Improving accountability in recommender systems research through reproducibility	12
Meta-User2Vec model for addressing the user and item cold-start problem in recommender systems	11
Multimodal modeling of collaborative problem-solving facets in triads	11
Fairness in recommender systems: research landscape and future directions	11
Using autoencoders for session-based job recommendations	10

BARGAIN: behavioral affective rule-based games adaptation interface–towards emotionally intelligent games: application on a virtual reality environment for socio-moral development	10
Effects of adapting to user pitch on rapport perception, behavior, and state with a social robotic learning companion	10
NFC: a deep and hybrid item-based model for item cold-start recommendation	9
The role of transparency in multi-stakeholder educational recommendations	9
Applying reranking strategies to route recommendation using sequence-aware evaluation	8
Introducing CARESSER: A framework for in situ learning robot social assistance from expert knowledge and demonstrations	8
Recommendations for marathon runners: on the application of recommender systems and machine learning to support recreational marathon runners	8
An adaptive decision-making system supported on user preference predictions for human–robot interactive communication	8
A novel group recommender system for domain-independent decision support customizing a grouping genetic algorithm	8
Personalized task difficulty adaptation based on reinforcement learning	8
An automated system recommending background music to listen to while working	7
Modeling the behavior of persons with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s for intelligent environment simulation	7
Effects and challenges of using a nutrition assistance system: results of a long-term mixed-method study	7
Better targeting of consumers: Modeling multifactorial gender and biological sex from Instagram posts	6
Theory-based habit modeling for enhancing behavior prediction in behavior change support systems	6
Improving cold-start recommendations using item-based stereotypes	5
Measuring and modeling context-dependent preferences for hearing aid settings	5
Personality-targeted persuasive gamified systems: exploring the impact of application domain on the effectiveness of behaviour change strategies	5
Supporting users in finding successful matches in reciprocal recommender systems	4
Considering temporal aspects in recommender systems: a survey	4
Viewer types in game live streams: questionnaire development and validation	4
Safe, effective and explainable drug recommendation based on medical data integration	4
Preface to the special issue on fair, accountable, and transparent recommender systems	4
A pharmaceutical therapy recommender system enabling shared decision-making	4
Embarrassingly shallow auto-encoders for dynamic collaborative filtering	4
Nonparametric user activity modelling and prediction	4
Personalized rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy	4
Personality expression and recognition in Chinese language usage	4
Modelling and predicting an individual’s perception of advertising appeal	3
Dynamic session-based music recommendation using information retrieval techniques	3
Improving session-based recommendation with contrastive learning	3
A dichotomic approach to adaptive interaction for socially assistive robots	3
A human-centered decentralized architecture and recommendation engine in SIoT	3
Use of topical and temporal profiles and their hybridisation for content-based recommendation	3
Device personalization for heterogeneous populations: leveraging physician expertise and national population data to identify medical device patient user groups	3
Rank-sensitive proportional aggregations in dynamic recommendation scenarios	3
Personalised socially assistive robot for cardiac rehabilitation: Critical reflections on long-term interactions in the real world	3
Domain-based Latent Personal Analysis and its use for impersonation detection in social media	3
Modeling users’ heterogeneous taste with diversified attentive user profiles	3
Scalable stream-based recommendations with random walks on incremental graph of sequential interactions with implicit feedback	2
A serious game to extract Hofstede’s cultural dimensions at the individual level	2
Design, development, and evaluation of an interactive personalized social robot to monitor and coach post-stroke rehabilitation exercises	2
Beyond binary correctness: Classification of students’ answers in learning systems	2
Gaze-based predictive models of deep reading comprehension	2
Preface to the Special Issue on user modeling for personalized interaction with music	2
From perception to action using observed actions to learn gestures	2
Transferring recommendations through privacy user models across domains	2
Empathy as an engaging strategy in social robotics: a pilot study	2
What we see is what we do: a practical Peripheral Vision-Based HMM framework for gaze-enhanced recognition of actions in a medical procedural task	2
Online convex combination of ranking models	2

Dirichlet–Luce choice model for learning from interactions	2
How do item features and user characteristics affect users’ perceptions of recommendation serendipity? A cross-domain analysis	2
Fair performance-based user recommendation in eCoaching systems	2
Clustering of conversational bandits with posterior sampling for user preference learning and elicitation	2
Eye-tracking-based personality prediction with recommendation interfaces	2
Intra-list similarity and human diversity perceptions of recommendations: the details matter	2